An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by ethnic people in Parbat district of Western Nepal

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 165, Issue , 2015, Pages 103-117

  Malla, Birendra ^a   Gauchan, Dhurva P ^a   Chhetri, Ran B ^a  

^a KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Magar and Majhi; Medicinal knowledge; Traditional healers; Western Nepal

Indexed keywords

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BERGENIA CILIATA; CASH CROP; COMMUNITY; CONSENSUS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HERB; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; KNOWLEDGE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIS POLYPHYLLA; PLANT; PRESERVATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SHRUB; STANDARD; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERVIEW; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES;

BERGENIA CILIATA; PARIS POLYPHYLLA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ETHNIC GROUPS; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; NEPAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84924421297     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.12.057     Document Type: Article

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